Exam 22: Oral and Gastrointestinal Diseases

In areas of good sanitation,shigellosis is usually spread by _____.

Which of the following infections can be self-limiting and will cease without treatment?

Which of the following protozoal infections is self-limiting in healthy individuals and has no effective treatment?

Consuming which of the following would not put you at risk for gastrointestinal diseases?

Which of the following microbes causes an enteritis that is sometimes is misdiagnosed as appendicitis because the symptoms are very similar?

This organism is the cause of _____.

Which microbe is responsible for a self-limiting disease whose symptoms include abdominal pain,fever (probably due to endotoxins),diarrhea with blood and mucus,within 8-48 hours of ingestion?

All of the following are diagnosed by proglottids in the feces of infected patients except:

Typhoid fever can be prevented by:

Which of the following infections is due to protozoa?

All of the following refer to the cholera strain in Central and South America except:

Which is the only ciliated protozoan that causes a human disease similar to amoebic dysentery?

This organism is a/an:

Which bacteria can grow in the gall bladder and be asymptomatically shed from the feces?

Which helminth burrows through the skin,reach the lungs where they are coughed up and swallowed and then burrow into villi of the intestines and mature to adult worms?

Which of the following could be prevented by cooking fish and shellfish?

Which statement about host susceptibility is incorrect?

_____ resists the acid in the stomach and attaches in the large intestines. It creates special filaments to infect other cells. Within 1-4 days the patient has diffuse diarrhea,with blood and mucus,which could lead to kwashiorkor and vitamin B₁₂ deficiencies.

Escherichia coli O157:H7 is characterized by all of the following except:

All of the statements about mumps are true EXCEPT: